Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:42:06 -0600 From: Christopher Schulte <schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>, MikeM <MyRaQ@mgm51.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote upgrading (was: /etc/make.conf question) Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020312113310.05cd6028@pop3s.schulte.org> In-Reply-To: <20020312171954.GB10440@student.uu.se> References: <200203121201050707.044E239E@luna.affordablehost.com> <Pine.GSO.4.32.0203121126520.1546-100000@nippur.irb.hr> <20020312074349.A91204@blackhelicopters.org> <20020312155618.GA9463@raggedclown.net> <20020312114158.A92910@blackhelicopters.org> <200203121201050707.044E239E@luna.affordablehost.com>
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At 06:19 PM 3/12/2002 +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: >Now, if you can ensure that the machine is "quiet" in some other way, >for example by not running any applications yourself and making sure >nobody else is logged in, and are confident that the new kernel will >work then there is no reason you can't do a remote upgrade. Ideally, Log out all users but yourself. Unmount all network drives. Stop all inet services. Kill all processes not critical to the running system such as cron, syslogd, inetd, sshd ( just the master listening process ). I just run a ps until I feel I've killed everything I can. I've done a ton of these remote installs. They've been safe for me. But yes, YMMV. Try it on a test box first. >-- ><Insert your favourite quote here.> >Erik Trulsson >ertr1013@student.uu.se -- Christopher Schulte http://www.schulte.org/ Do not un-munge my @nospam.schulte.org email address. This address is valid. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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